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Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050804/2005-08-04T171414Z_01_N0475285_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SPACE-SHUTTLE-DC.html
"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air, we need to protect what we have."

"Insurgents" Using Bigger, More Lethal Bombs, U.S. Officers Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/international/middleeast/04bomb.html?th&emc=th
"This was a catastrophic event," said Sgt. Jason Knapp, an Air Force bomb technician who arrived at the scene of the multiple attacks the next morning. He found a foot from one of the American soldiers in the shallow water of a nearby canal. "It was pretty disturbing," he said.

Ohio families reeling after battalion loses 21 in six days
http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-iohio04.html
"Oh, my God," she said softly. "I'm all for protection but this is getting a little bit ridiculous."


Palmer said she and her husband, Paul Schroeder, last spoke with their son about a week ago. He said he was tired of flushing insurgents out of the same places, just to have them reappear with better weapons. "He said the closer they got to the time to come home, the less it was worth it," she said.

“Make no mistake about it,” Bush said. “We are at war.”
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1010240.php
“These terrorists and insurgents will use brutal tactics because they’re trying to shake the will of the United States of America. They want us to retreat.”

Bush says US will not be driven out of Middle East
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050804/pl_afp/usattacksiraqqaeda_050804191810;_ylt=Aqpagem5ytc8X9yVuEKB_q1X6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Though US generals and officials have indicated that plans for a US troop withdrawal in 2006 are already being made, Bush said "Our troops will come home as soon as possible.

U.S. lays groundwork for Iraq troop withdrawal
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8810557/
The Pentagon is laying the groundwork for beginning a withdrawal from Iraq, even as it is weighing the risk of moving so quickly that Iraqi security forces collapse without U.S. support.

Al Qaeda threatens more UK, U.S. attacks
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/04/zawahiri.london/index.html
He told the American people that their leaders are lying to them about the Iraq war and called for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces. "The truth that has been kept from you by (President) Bush, (Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice and (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld is that there is no way out of Iraq without immediate withdrawal, and any delay on this means only more dead, more losses.
"If you don't leave today, certainly you will leave tomorrow, and after tens of thousands of dead, and double that figure in disabled and wounded."


U.S. military reports four more American service members killed in Iraq amid upsurge in violence
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2005/08/04/news/latest_news/d1932eb7d48e67b88625705300666abc.txt
Bush added: "The comments of the No. 2 man of al-Qaida make it clear that Iraq is part of this war on terror, and we're at war."

MP George Galloway has defended comments referring to insurgents in Iraq as "martyrs", saying he has not put British troops at risk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4744685.stm
"I said countries occupied by UK and US troops are being raped by them. Jerusalem and Baghdad are in the hands of foreigners who are doing their will. "The people stirring up hatred for our troops are those who put them in Iraq, not the likes of us who want to bring them home to their families.
"The people who put our troops at risk are the people who put them abroad."


Former pro-Israel lobbyists charged with classified leaks
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-08-04-spyingcharges_x.htm
An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., named Steven Rosen, formerly the director of foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Keith Weissman, the organization's former senior Iran analyst.

Iran's new president: Scrap all WMDs
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/04/eng20050804_200255.html
"I will plead for the suppression of all weapons of mass destruction," Ahmadinejad said after taking office in a ceremony attended by government leaders and foreign ambassadors.


A teenage Israeli soldier shot dead four people in a blazing row over the country's imminent withdrawal from Gaza before being lynched by furious residents of an Arab-Israeli town.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050804/1/3tzvd.html
The 19-year-old religiously observant Jew, dressed in army fatigues, unleashed a volley of fire inside a bus in the northern Galilee town of Shfaram in an argument over the pullout, police said. Four Israeli Arab passengers died in the hail of bullets. The gunman was lynched by a furious crowd as hundreds flocked to the blood-smeared bus in a Druze neighbourhood of Shfaram shortly after the attack, police and witnesses said.

Three Israelis Killed in Attack by Soldier on Bus
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aSnUlCTJBlew&refer=top_world_news
Haaretz identified the gunman as 19-year-old Eden Tzuberi, a Jewish activist who deserted his unit a month ago to protest the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, according to security officials who weren't named. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon released a statement late today calling the incident ``a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist.''

IDF, police fear riots in wake of Shfaram shooting
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/608864.html
The attacker - Eden Tzubeiri, 19 - was a newly religious man, an IDF deserter from Rishon Letzion who recently moved to the West Bank settlement of Tapuah. He was an activist in the outlawed extreme-right Kach movement and went AWOL a month ago to protest the disengagement plan.
 
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